The BackType Connect WordPress plugin finds conversations related to your content and allows you to display the associated comments inline with your own. Existing conversations about your content taking place across the web can now be displayed right on your blog for your visitors to read and respond to. It works on top of your existing WordPress comments, both threaded and non-threaded.

Currently, we support conversations from:

Twitter – tweets that link your posts

FriendFeed – on the entries for your posts

Digg – on the submissions for your posts

Reddit – on the submissions for your posts

Hacker News – on the submissions for your posts

Other blogs – whenever someone links one of your posts

The plugin is highly customizable. You can:

Specify which sources you want to include comments from

Add a summary to the top of your comments section, which shows the number of comments from each source

Specify whether you would like BackType Connect comments to be displayed at the end of the comments section, or mixed with the rest of your comments